The week is over and that means that a fresh app overview is waiting for you! As far as we are concerned, you should not miss these new apps, games and updates. You can find the best iOS apps from week 34 here.
The best iOS apps at a glance
The App Store works overtime every week to handle the never-ending stream of new apps and updates. However, you will hardly notice this, because only a small part of it is worth installing. If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch can use some new apps, you’ve come to the right place.
1. Facebook app
The Security Check will have a separate department within the Facebook app. Previously, Facebook only made the option available in exceptional situations, but it will soon be a permanent part of the app. The new screen, which can probably be opened via the menu (the button at the bottom right of the iOS app), shows the situations in which friends have marked themselves safe.
The function will not be given a prominent place within the app, but it will always be available. In a few weeks, the update will have reached everyone. According to Facebook, people feel the need during a crisis to get in touch with loved ones, to ask for or offer help, or to find out more about the crisis itself.
→ Download the Facebook app from the App Store (free)
2. Colossatron
Next week, Apple is putting the spotlight on the game Colossatron: Massive World Threat from Halfbrick Studios, the team behind the successful games Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride. Just like those games, Halfbrick has come up with another unique concept for Colossatron. The idea is that an evil monster wants to destroy humanity. Instead of having to destroy the beast, you can offer help.
The monster is a huge snake consisting of separate parts on which weapons are placed. You take parts from the environment and place them in the snake, so that the beast grows longer and stronger. Each part has its own color. For example, if you place three red parts in a row, an extra strong weapon is created.
→ Download Colossatron from the App Store (free)
3. BNNVARA
BNNVARA released a completely new iOS app this week. The focus is on the Stories, which are short videos of the various programs. When you open the app, you immediately see an overview with fun and current video clips from BNNVARA programs such as Boos, 3 op Reis and Queer Amsterdam.
You jump – just like in Instagram and Snapchat – from video to video by swiping left or right, where you also see vertical videos. The app does have a major disadvantage: you necessarily need an account to be able to use it. Not really handy.
→ Download BNNVARA in the App Store (free)
4. Radiation City
Radiation City is a survival horror game set in the disaster area around Chernobyl, where you have to survive while looking for loved ones. This is not without a struggle and soon you have to take on zombies and other enemies.
While Radiation City is by no means an original game, the game does have a story to follow. You end up in the disaster area due to a plane crash, but it soon becomes apparent that there is more to it. It is up to you to find out the truth and solve the mystery.
→ Download Radiation City from the App Store (5.49 euros)
5. Polygram
It is not easy to conquer a place among established social networks such as Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter. But Polygram thinks it has the golden idea. The app recognizes the user’s facial expressions via the iPhone’s selfie camera. Polygram’s technology converts the face into an emoji when you view a post.
As a result, the responses are very honest. Only when you have to laugh genuinely does the app register that response. Most of the time you probably look a bit bored at the iPhone screen. The app is all about these emoji as reactions. You cannot hand out likes or choose a response yourself. The face determines.
→ Download Polygram from the App Store (free)